title: The anti-alcohol campaign in the USSR--a dubious success.
abstract: The anti-alcohol campaign launched in 1984 tried to accomplish a profound social change by partial prohibition. Drunkenness was driven underground, but illegal distillation made up the shortfall in supplies, and alcoholism has not declined.
authors.affiliation: Research Committee on Deviant Behaviour, Soviet Sociological Association, Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Levin
mesh_terms: D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D012922:Social Change; D012924:Social Conditions; D012926:Social Control, Formal / Q000379:methods*; D014586:USSR